A Fluoride Action Network bulletin reporting that Queensland has dropped its mandatory fluoridation requirement, leaving the choice to each community, alongside an update on the group's 2012 fundraiser.
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Food Safety
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Chemical
Fluoride science is tobacco science
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin carrying Chris Bryson's "fluoride science is tobacco science" quote, a reader's letter about her son, and a fundraiser update: $18,446 from 61 donors so far, with Joe Mercola offering to match the next $10,000.
GMO
Is The Fast Growing AquAdvantage Salmon Safe To Eat?
AquaBounty's engineered salmon reaches full size in 18 months instead of three years, and the company told the FDA that 95 to 99 percent are sterile. On the 15 million eggs it plans to grow, even 1 to 5 percent fertile would mean 750,000 fish, and the piece questions the containment plan.
GMO
Could GM foods be responsible for record low birth rate in the U.S.?
The piece speculates, by its own admission without solid evidence, that genetically modified corn may lie behind the record-low U.S. birth rate, noting the sharpest drop among Mexican immigrant women and citing Jeffrey Smith's claim that GM foods have been linked to infertility.
Chemical
Artificial Sweeteners Cause Greater Weight Gain than Sugar, Yet Another Study Reveals
A Brazilian team fed rats yogurt sweetened with aspartame, saccharin or sugar alongside their chow for 12 weeks and reports in Appetite that both artificial sweeteners produced more weight gain than sucrose, even though total calorie intake was similar across the groups.
Chemical
Fluoride induces oxidative stress, melatonin helps reduce the toxicity
Indian researchers gave male rats 5 or 10 mg of sodium fluoride per kg daily for 60 days and saw lower body and organ weights, raised lipid peroxidation and depleted antioxidants in the testis. Melatonin at 10 mg/kg significantly protected gonadal function.
Chemical
Nanoparticles used in food, dietary supplements and cosmetics can induce mutation
A Pharmazie study found 70-nm amorphous silica nanoparticles triggered more reactive oxygen species in Langerhans-like cells than micron-sized silica did. The article notes such particles are widely used in food, supplements and cosmetics without adequate toxicity testing.
Chemical
Aspartame Associated with Increased Risk of Blood Cancers in Long-Term Human Study
Brigham and Women's Hospital apologized for promoting a study linking aspartame to cancer in some people, saying its scientific leaders judged the data weak and the press release premature. Mercola recounts being asked by ABC News to review the 40-page study within an hour.
Chemical
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles cause genotoxicity, apoptosis in lung cancer cells
Indian Institute of Toxicology Research scientists exposed lung cancer cells to titanium dioxide nanoparticles at 10 and 50 ug/mL and saw oxidative stress, apoptosis and genotoxicity, with P53, P21 and cleaved caspase-3 up and Bcl2 down. Healthy lung cells were not tested.
GMO
How Genetically Engineered Soy Threatens Ecological Stability
Dr. Mercola draws on a Greenpeace investigation to argue soy monoculture is flattening Amazon rainforest in Brazil, pushing native people off their land, and drawing violence against protesters while the Brazilian government stays uninvolved.
Chemical
More than 1.5 Million Pounds of Arsenic-Laden Drugs Sold to Meat Producers
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future analyzed FDA documents and counted at least 706,530 kilograms sold for animal use in 2010. Producers feed the drugs to control intestinal parasites, promote growth and make meat look more appealing; arsenic harms human health and the environment.
GMO
The Bitter Seeds of Monsanto's Legacy: Debt, Death, and Global Destruction
Mercola introduces Bitter Seeds, the last film in Micha Peled's globalization trilogy for Teddy Bear Films, which turns to the start of the supply chain and the crisis the director attributes to Monsanto's genetically engineered Bt cotton and the rising cost of its seed.
Chemical
Nanoparticles damage sperm - study
Researchers in India exposed buffalo sperm to titanium dioxide nanoparticles under 100 nm and found impaired sperm function and increased DNA fragmentation. The article notes such particles are used in processed foods and cosmetics and are rarely tested for long-term effects.
GMO
We can't afford to lose
An Environmental Working Group appeal seeking $25,000 before California votes on Proposition 37, the GMO labeling measure, noting that pesticide and processed food companies were spending more than $35 million against it and that polling had tightened after industry attack ads.
Chemical
Be Wary: This Popular Grain Contains Arsenic
Three Arkansas farming operations sued Pfizer, Tyson Foods and three poultry producers, alleging arsenic-containing feed additives pass into chicken litter spread on rice fields and contaminate the crop. Consumer Reports had found 'worrisome' inorganic arsenic in US rice.
Chemical
Lots of Good News on Anti-fluoridation
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin counts four more towns ending fluoridation: O'Fallon, Missouri; Rosetown, Saskatchewan; Lake View, Iowa; and Cassadaga, New York. Cost, a broken feed pump and citizen opposition drove the decisions, adding to more than 70 since 2010.
Chemical
Carcinogen benzene found in all soft drinks
Italian researchers tested 28 soft drinks and found benzene in every one, averaging 0.45 ug/L and ranging up to 2.36. Two citrus drinks containing both vitamin C and sodium benzoate, which react to release benzene, exceeded the European drinking water limit of 1 ug/L.
Chemical
Fructose Linked to Cardiometabolic Disease
G.A. Bray writes in Current Atherosclerosis Reports that meta-analyses tie sugar-sweetened beverages to cardiovascular disease, obesity and metabolic syndrome, and that trials of 10 to 26 weeks link them to higher triglycerides, body weight and visceral fat.
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